Frank Stronach has purchased majority interest in the 2-year-old colt Fire On Ice, an impressive 10 3/4-length debut winner at Saratoga on Aug. 27. Fire On Ice is being pointed to the Grade 1 Champagne at Belmont Park on Oct. 8.

The horse will remain with trainer John Kimmel, who owned the horse in partnership with Eli Gindi. Kimmel said both he and Gindi will retain part interest in the colt, who will stand at Stronach’s Adena Springs when his racing career is over.

MIAMI – Slowly but surely, Big Drama is starting to look like his old self again, which means he’s starting to look like the horse who won the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Sprint, an Eclipse Award, and set a track record at Gulfstream Park in his 2011 debut.

On Sept. 10 at Arlington Park, Shared Property, a 2-year-old Scat Daddy colt who had won his career debut in Kentucky, captured the Arlington-Washington Futurity for trainer Tom Amoss. Tuesday’s featured third race at Hoosier Park is an entry-level allowance for 2-year-olds also open to $50,000 claimers and restricted to fillies, but there are parallels to the Futurity.

ELMONT, N.Y. – While the focus around these parts is the Oct. 1 card featuring five Grade 1 races, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin is hoping for more than one Super Saturday in the next month.

McLaughlin on Saturday morning put a quartet of horses through workouts at Belmont Park for upcoming stakes both here and out of town. McLaughlin waited until late in the morning – when both the main track and training tracks have less traffic – to send out his stakes horses.

History is a big part of the Kentucky Downs allure, what with the legacy of pistol duels involving iconic figures such as Sam Houston and other ages-old tidbits.

John Gaver III knows a little something about racing history, having lived it through his grandfather and father, and when he brings a 3-year-old filly named High Alpine to Kentucky Downs to race Monday, it will be for an outfit with a rich racing history as well – Overbrook Farm.

Shackleford had his first breeze since a disappointing performance in the Aug. 27 Travers Stakes when going five furlongs Saturday morning, after which trainer Dale Romans said he is contemplating a run in the Oct. 1 Indiana Derby at Hoosier Park for his Preakness winner.

“We’ll either go to Indiana or just train straight into the Breeders’ Cup,” said Romans, with either the Dirt Mile or Classic the target.

With Tammy Fox aboard, Shackleford went in 1:01.20 over a fast track at Churchill Downs. The speedy colt faded badly to finish eighth in the Travers.

General Quarters will stay on a synthetic surface in his attempt to make the Breeders’ Cup when he runs Saturday as one of the favorites in the $200,000 WinStar Kentucky Cup, the showcase event in the newly revived Kentucky Cup series at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky.

Miss Victoriana, mounting a steady wide rally after trailing the field of nine through the first-half mile, kept coming for a determined 1 1/4- length victory in Friday night’s $50,000 Matron at Assiniboia Downs.

Based in Alberta with trainer Red Smith, Miss Victoriana had shipped east to capture last year’s 1 1/8-mile Matron at 7-1 and returned $13.70 this time around under new rider Stephan Heiler.

The 25-horse stable owned by Billy Hays and trained by Joe Woodard vacated Turfway Park on Saturday morning after they scratched all six horses they had entered in five races Friday night at the Florence, Ky., track in their escalating dispute with the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission veterinary staff.

Turfway president Bob Elliston said he requested the stable to leave the premises shortly before the start of the evening card after he learned of the scratches. Hays and Woodard also scratched their previous nine scheduled starters last week at Turfway.

POMONA, Calif. – A paid workout Friday at Fairplex Park by the promising 2-year-old filly Candrea will catapult her into a Grade 1 next month at Santa Anita.

Candrea, trained by Bob Baffert and ridden by Martin Pedroza, dominated the $50,000 Phil. D. Shepherd Stakes at Fairplex, winning the seven-furlong race by four lengths while geared down.

“That was a good workout for her,” Baffert said from Kentucky. “Now I can run her back in the Oak Leaf.” The mile and a sixteenth Oak Leaf will be run Oct. 2 at Santa Anita.